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DICKSON'S REPLY TO PROFESSOR LOWE'S 



Flax-culture, 





£ 



s. 



d. 



Ce. 



To rent of three 









By first 250 stooks 



Irish acres of 









watered when 



land, including 









pulled, seed not 



the taxes, 









saved, produce 



ploughing, har- 









when scutched 



rowing, seed, 









68 stones of 



rolling, weedin g, 









Flax, sold at 7s. 



pulling, water- 









per stone 



ing, grassing, 









„.Second 250 



and scutching... 



30 











stooks kept over 



„ Balance or 









year, seed saved 



profit on the 









and produced 



growth of three 









four hogsheads 



Irish acres of 









and sold at 



Flax 



59 



4 







£4 4s 



£89 4 



£ s. d. 



Flax produced from 

 same, 108 stone 

 superior quality, 

 which sold for 

 9s. per stone. ... 48 12 



£89 4 



"Mr. Dobbin had £59 clear profit on the three Irish 

 acres, after allowing £ 1 per acre to cover all expenses, and 

 would have had £16 16s. for seed, and £24 16s. for Flax, 

 in all £41 12s. more profit, had he not been guided by 

 the old Irish or Scotch system of watering it the year the Flax 

 is pulled, but kept all his Flax to the following year. May I 

 now ask Professor Lowe, after looking at the above statement, 

 if he doubts the fact, or can he inform the British and Irish 

 landowners and farmers (as many may still be disposed to 



